The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-04-14

There is strong, active Buroon element
in the Democratic party, but so far as |
can see the reform element ofthe country
Democrat and Republican, look to the
Democratic party more than the Repub-
licans, as those parties are now constitut.
ed, for advancement in the direction of
reform. For example: Where are We
to look for revenue reform or tariff reduc-
tion? It is true that the Democratic party
is not united on that issue now, but the
Republican party is certainly solid
against it. Then there is the civil service
reform. Where are its friends? 1t
seems to me that at present Mr.. Cleve.
land is its greatest practical friend and
that as far as the rank and file is corcern.
ed the Democratic party is quite as fav.
orably inclined to it as The Republicans.
On these, as on all similar issues. I think
the forwardlookipg men Of the country
are more in sympathy, or rather look
with more hope to the Democratic than
the Republican party"
GLOW about the John Sherman
boom?".
"Has Mr.. Sherman boom Well, let
me say this. The old Southern issue"
"You mean, of course, the bloody
sbirt?"
'The old Southern issue-call it what
you willis now q past issue. In 1876
the Republican party officially, and as a
party sentiment, left the South to what
it called "home rule" From that mo-
ment there WAS nothing more for Federal
interference to do. Whatever unsettled
issues were left were necessarily left to
be settled in the States themselves, and
not at Washington. These issues are all
settled, or in process of settlement, and
for Sherman or Hoar and such men to
raise that old question now is simply
pure and conscious demagogy. How
these issues now stand here at the South,
or what their future course may be, I
haven't sufficient information to make
me confident. Except that plainly see
that political power and leadership ara
passing rapidly into the hands of men,
who were not actively engaged, by reason
of age, in The war. Under such inhuen.
ces I am very confident that those 'old
issues will be settled in some peaceful
way. 1 will add, that perhaps these
issues may be said to be settled already,
but the South has great industrial
future before it, and in that future the
negro will play an important part. The
best laboriug element, in my judgment,
that any portion of this country, or 80
far as I know, any other country hiss,
lacking a little no doubt in efficiency,
measured by Northern standard, but
still peaceful, faithful and loving,
not given to strikes and not easily led to
oppose the interests of those for whom
they labor. They were not fitted fol
political life and they failed there, bui
they are fitted to aid in the development
of the resources of the South, and wher
the influences of which 1 have spoken
shall have passed away they will doubt
less become homogeneous a1ith the white
people of the South in their views of the
public and public affairs"
Governor Chamberlain, who, after all
it will be remembered, was the cleanest O.
the old Reconstr uctioniats, said goot
many kind and pleasant thing about the
State over which he had once ruled o.
its Chief Executive. His bright mine
and keen intellect placed him in 1884 il
the front ranks of those Republicans wht
revolted from The Blaine standard, ant
Governor Chamberlain in the Letters
which he wrote at that time and in .
good many other ways contributed a
much perhaps as any one man in New
York to the success of the Democratic
Presidential ticket. After looking owe
some of the old files of the Neaos ant
Courier he took his departure, leaving
behind him impressions of the kindlies
kind.